Explore 352 historical events from 1880–1889.
Auguste Herbin was a French painter of modern art. He is best known for his Cubist and abstract paintings consisting of colorful geometric figures. He co-founded the groups Abstrac…
Auguste Herbin, French painter (died 1960)
Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman was an experimental Dutch artist, typographer, and printer. He set up a clandestine printing house during the Nazi occupation (1940–1945) and was shot by t…
Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch printer, typographer, and Nazi resister (died 1945)
Isabel González was a Puerto Rican activist who helped pave the way for Puerto Ricans to be given United States citizenship. As a young unwed pregnant woman, González had her plans…
Isabel González, Puerto Rican activist who helped pave the way for Puerto Ricans' American citizenship (died 1971)
Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst was an English feminist and socialist activist and writer. Following encounters with women-led labour activism in the United States, she worked to organise…
Sylvia Pankhurst, English women's suffrage movement leader and socialist activist (died 1960)
Alphonsus Josephus de Ridder was a Belgian writer and poet who wrote under the pseudonym Willem Elsschot. One of the most prominent Flemish authors, his most famous work, Cheese (1…
Willem Elsschot, Belgian author and poet (died 1960)
George Barker was a portrait and landscape painter from the United States. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, much of his work was done in Southern California. While teaching at Long Beach P…
George Barker, American painter (died 1965)
Henry John Kaiser was an American industrialist who became known for his shipbuilding and construction projects, then later for his involvement in fostering modern American health …
Henry J
Georges Braque was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1905,…
Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor (died 1963)
Walter White was a Scottish professional footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Bolton Wanderers, Fulham and Everton. He won two caps for Scotland at…
Walter White, Scottish international footballer (died 1950)
Karl Burman sen. was an Estonian architect and painter.
Karl Burman, Estonian architect and painter (died 1965)
Simeon Taylor "Sim" Price Jr. was an American golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Simeon Price, American golfer (died 1945)
Sigrid Undset was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.
Sigrid Undset, Danish-Norwegian novelist, essayist, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1949)
Charles Benjamin "Babe" Adams was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1906 to 1926 who spent nearly his entire career with the Pittsburgh Pirates. …
Babe Adams, American baseball player, manager, and journalist (died 1968)
William Halpenny was a Canadian track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was born in Prince Edward Island. In 1912, he won a bronze medal in the pole va…
William Halpenny, Canadian pole vaulter (died 1960)
Marie Doro was an American stage and film actress of the early silent film era.
Marie Doro, American actress (died 1956)
Wyndham Halswelle was a British athlete. He won the controversial 400 m race at the 1908 Summer Olympics, becoming the only athlete to win an Olympic title by a walkover.
Wyndham Halswelle, English runner and soldier (died 1915)
Count Sándor Ágost Dénes Festetics de Tolna was a Hungarian nobleman and cabinet minister who later became an advocate of Nazism in Hungary.
Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of War (died 1956)
George Jennings was an English sanitary engineer and plumber who invented the first public flush toilets. These were first showcased at the Great Exhibition in 1851, and such was t…
George Jennings, English engineer and plumber, invented the flush toilet (born 1810)
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have…
Charles Darwin, English biologist and theorist (born 1809)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of …
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher (born 1803)
Leonidas Smolents, Smolenits or Smolenskis was an Austrian military officer of Greek origin, who after 1830 settled in the newly independent Kingdom of Greece and became a general …
Leonidas Smolents, Austrian–Greek general and army minister (born 1806)
Thomas Henry Burke was an Irish civil servant who served as Permanent Under Secretary at the Irish Office for many years before being assassinated during the Phoenix Park Murders o…
Thomas Henry Burke, Irish civil servant (born 1829)
Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish was a British Liberal politician and protégé of the Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone. Cavendish was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland in…
Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (born 1836)
Frederick Maitland Innes was Premier of Tasmania from 4 November 1872 to 4 August 1873.
Frederick Innes, Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Tasmania (born 1816)